Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bathroom. "Declares Bertha Nation, who was slapped around: "Any fair-minded American would have to admit that the Cretin people have been driven to this." Egret Birdsnoot has no hard feelings about his injury: "It was just a tap on the head. They had to keep order and prevent panic, and they did. Very impressive fellows." Marta and Bertha kiss each of the hijackers goodbye. Egret shakes hands and promises to bone up on the ideals of the Cretin movement...
...chairman, Stare had an involved set of steps and strategies for deciding what outside funds and commitments to accept. He gave the department royalties from his books (such as Panic in the Pantry, whose sequel will be titled Danger in the Dining Room,) payment for his syndicated nutrition column, and editorial fees larger than about $500. The total given, he says, has amounted to about $100,000 over the last ten years...
...years of diligent work in his drab little Welsh seaside town, Charlie still boards in a room formerly occupied by a pickle salesman. He has barely risen to be fifth of six clerks. "That's a safe job," everybody tells Charlie until the poor lad, in quiet panic, begins to see 40 years to retirement stretching ahead...
That is a sweeping change from the near panic of late 1973 and early 1974, when motorists were lining up at fuel-short gasoline stations, many American towns were extinguishing Christmas lights to conserve electricity, and a new Washington energy bureaucracy was drafting a program to encourage conservation and the development of domestic fuel sources so as to eliminate dependence on oil from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries by 1985. Today, Project Independence is largely dead; federal energy analysts concede that there is no way for the U.S. to become totally independent of foreign...
...policing of black townships can soon be done by blacks themselves." But government attitudes quickly hardened. After remaining silent for nearly a week, Prime Minister John Vorster warned: "If there are grievances, the door is open to hear those grievances, but the government will certainly not be railroaded into panic action." Later Kruger refused to meet with black leaders. "If the students think they can get concessions by rioting," he said, "they are making a very big mistake...